Improvement in buckles or slides for hoof-skirt bands



dint 1:211 giatw w lit Letters Patent No. 93,592, dated August 10, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES OR. SLIDE S FOR HOOP-SKIRT BANDS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sarne.

' justable Slide for Hoop-Skirt Bands; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompzuiying drawings, and the letters of reference markettthereon, to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawingsconstitute part of this specification, and 1 'epresent,in-

Figure 1, a top view;

Figure 2, a sectional view, enlarged to illustrate the manner of applying the "slide;

Figure 3, atop view and in F'gure 4, the same improvement applied to a barbuckle. 7

This invention relates to an improvement in a slide to be applied to hoop-skirt bands, and like purposes,- as a means ot' adjusting and securingthe hand about the body, which invention is applicable to buckles of a certain construction, as more fully hereafter shown; and r The invention consists in forining one side of the "frame of a slide or buckle divided; or so as "to leavea space'bet-ween the two ends, so as to admit of the in- -troduction of the free end of the band under the side, through the said space, after it has been passed over the-bar directly in the rear of the said slide.

To enable others skilled inthe art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same, as

illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

The slide, made as in fig. 1, is struck from sheet metal, so as to form the two ends, a, the side I), and side (I, with a portion, fieht out, and also a bar, h, extending from end to end, the said bar It being raised slightly above the side (I, as seen in fig. 2.

One end of the band is firmly fixed to the side I), as

seen in figs. 2 and 3. The other end of the band is passed up back of and over the bar 71, down in front of the bar h, and under the side (I, as seen-iii fig. 2.

In the buckles or slides heretofore constructed and applied in similar manner, the free end of the band is with difiiculty tucked under the side d, and when tucked under and adjusted, is with greater ditficnlty loosened, as the hand must be.picked out. By my invention this difficulty is entirely overcome.

The free end of the band, in order to pass it under the side (I, is drawn first under one end through the space f, as seen in fig. 3,'t-hen the opposite edge of the band is drawn under the end through the said space f.

To release the band, it is in the same manner taken out, hence is avoided the difficulty usually experienced in slides of this class.v

This invention, as will be observed in fig. 4, is alike applicable to clamp-buckles,'n beingthe clamp hinged to the side I). The strap is adjusted in the same manner as inthe slide, by passing the free end through the space f and this improvement also overcomes the difticulty experienced in the use of sliding-bar buckles, that is, to the buckle known as the Lofts patent.

Having fully described my invention,

\Vhat I claim as newand useful, and desire to secure by. Letters Patent,-is-- In the frame of a slide or buckle, the space f,forined in one side, for the introduction or removal of the free end ofthe band, combined with the bar h, fixed or hung to the said frame, substantially as set forth.

' HEMAN I. BROOKS.

' \Vitnesses: 1

JOHN ONrsn, Jr.', J onx- KIRBY. 

